Acquiring proficiency in academic genres is a key factor in research community. Among various genres in academic discourse communities, spoken genre, especially Conference Presentations (CPs), play a crucial role in research communities, though investigation on this important genre is in its infancy or is relatively under-researched. Therefore, the present study aims to shed light on the import...

Few medical journals specifically instruct authors to use the active voice and avoid the passive voice, but advice to that effect is common in the large number of stylebooks and blogs aimed at medical and scientific writers. Such advice typically revolves around arguments that the passive voice is less clear, less direct, and less concise than the active voice, that it conceals the identity of ...

in recent decades, research on the processing of grammatical structures in different languages has played a crucial role in psychological and linguistic studies. the present research aims to examine the extent to which arabic- and chinese-speaking learners apply passive voice and aspect in complement clauses in their pieces of writing. to that end, syntactic and pragmatic criteria of applying a...